The deliberations of the 10th Session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers (ICIM) will kick off with the theme “Media Convergence for Peace and Calm in the Islamic World” in Teheran, the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday, December 1, 2014. The Conference will be preceded by a senior officials meeting to discuss the draft resolutions. The meeting of the Ministers of Information and Communication will be held on 3-4 December, 2014. The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran, H.E. Ali Jannati and H.E. Iyad Ameen Madani, OIC Secretary General, will participate in the opening session....
29/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, advocated for the encouragement of national chambers of OIC Member States to join the Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture so that they can play their role in building human capacities for the purpose of employment and entrepreneurship....
28/11/2014
The 2nd international humanitarian action forum titled: “Humanitarian Work in a Turbulent World” held under the umbrella of the OIC and organized by a group of relief organizations in the Muslim world concluded its 2-day work in Jeddah on 27 November 2014. The relief organizations are: International Islamic Relief Organisation, International Islamic Charitable Organisation, Kuwait, IHH Organization, Turkey, Qatar Charitable Organization, World Assembly of Muslim Youth, International Research and Studies Centre, MEDAD and International Committee of the Red Cross, together with 48 humanitarian organizations. 129 persons attended the meeting, including experts and researchers in the field....
27/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, announced the choice of Al-Quds Ash-Sharif and Konya in Turkey as the capitals of Islamic tourism for 2015 and 2016 respectively....
27/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr Iyad Ameen Madani, has strongly condemned the twin suicide bomb attack on 25 November 2014 at a popular market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in northeastern Nigeria in which seventy eight people were killed and score of others injured. ...
26/11/2014
The Headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah hosted the second meeting of the Executive Council of the Islamic Broadcasting Union (IBU) on 25 November 2014, preparatory to the third meeting of the IBU General Assembly held on 26 November 2014....
25/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, welcomed the successful parliamentary and municipal elections organized in the Kingdom of Bahrain on 22/11/2014 in a climate of security, stability and broad popular participation....
24/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, condemned the audacity of the Israeli occupation government to approve the “State Judaization” bill, describing it as consolidation and legitimization of an apartheid system based on hostility, occupation and extremism being actually perpetrated by Israel....
24/11/2014
A joint high-level partnership humanitarian mission to Chad led by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the African Union and OCHA was concluded in Ndjamena on 21st November 2014. ...
24/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Mr Iyad Ameen Madani had condemned the execution on 22nd November 2014, of twenty eight passengers travelling in a bus in northern Kenya....
23/11/2014
The General Assembly of the OIC Standing Committee on Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) – ...
23/11/2014
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a two-day meeting in Geneva to discuss areas of joint collaboration between the two organizations. The meeting came as a result of the decision of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Antonio Guterres, and the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, when they last met in Jeddah in September 2014, to establish a joint committee with a mandate to advance mutual cooperation between the two institutions....
22/11/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, received on 20th November 2014 at his office, the new Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the OIC, H. E. Mahdi Hamzehei, who presented his letters of credentials to the Secretary General....
22/11/2014
A joint Committee headed by Ambassador Fuad Al-Maznaee, Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Amin Awad, Director, Middle East and North Africa Bureau of the United Nations Refugee Agency, started its first meeting at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday, 19 November 2014. ...
20/11/2014
OIC Secretary General H. E. Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani reiterated, once again, OIC’s firm commitment to support Somalia and the six pillars policy of the Somali Federal Government in its difficult journey to transpire as a viable state securing stability, peace and progress for the country itself and beyond....
20/11/2014